| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
1 online resource (270 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-258) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Ancestor-Continents: American and Americano -- Ch. 1. Influence and Inheritance -- Ch. 2. Foreign Words and Indian Corn -- Ch. 3. Ritual Speech: I, the Song -- Ch. 4. This Ecstatic Nation: Tribe, Mask, and Voice -- Ch. 5. The Vertical Voyage: "The Sleepers" and "Alturas de Macchu Picchu" -- Epilogue: Ghost Dance. |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Summary |
A long-overdue comparative study of the American voice in hemispheric poetry, Poet-Chief brings cross-cultural and interdisciplinary considerations to the work of Whitman and Neruda. Nolan proposes American Indian poetics as the model for the poets' own poetics. Whitman and Neruda wrote from an Americanist perspective. Both developed an oral, tribal poetics and assumed shamanic voices and personae in their major works, Leaves of Grass and Canto General. In addition they each presented the initiatory journey of a shaman in "The Sleepers" and "Alturas de Macchu Picchu." Despite the historical, cultural, and individual distinctions between their works, they both celebrate a tribal community and assume the functions of what Whitman calls the "poet-chief." These points of intersection between the poetics of Whitman, Neruda, and the American Indian clarify the nature of that broader voice identified as the native in American poetry. This fresh reading of two major American poets helps to break through the partitions that separate the native, English, and Spanish poetic responses to the American hemisphere. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
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| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 -- Aesthetics.
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Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892. |
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Aesthetics. |
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Neruda, Pablo, 1904-1973 -- Aesthetics.
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Neruda, Pablo, 1904-1973. |
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Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892. |
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Neruda, Pablo, 1904-1973. |
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WHITMAN, WALT, 1819-1892 -- ESTETICA. |
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NERUDA, PABLO, 1904-1973 -- ESTETICA. |
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Comparative literature -- American and Chilean.
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Comparative literature. |
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Comparative literature -- Chilean and American.
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Literature and anthropology -- America.
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Literature and anthropology. |
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America. |
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Oral tradition -- America.
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Oral tradition. |
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Indians in literature.
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Indians in literature. |
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Indian aesthetics.
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Indian aesthetics. |
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Poetics.
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Poetics. |
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Nolan, James, 1947- Poet-chief. 1st ed. Albuquerque, N.M. : University of New Mexico Press, ©1994 0826314848 (DLC) 93002379 (OCoLC)28256433 |
| ISBN |
058517895X (electronic book) |
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9780585178950 (electronic book) |
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0826314848 (cl) |
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9780826314840 (cl) |
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